Daniel Pinheiro Barbosa is the Finance Director of Fex Agro – a farm inputs and commodity trading company that operates from Mato Grosso – Brazil. Has a solid experience in finance and risk management and has been working in physical commodities trading since 2009.

Grégory Vicens started his career in investment banks and asset management companies in market risk management and middle office enhancements after an IT engineer diploma. With 15 years of experience in this sector, he worked with several systems as well as different types of organizations

He joined the commodities sector 4 years ago while joining Saipol (Groupe Avril) to build the risk and middle office systems and process. One milestone was the set-up of an automated forex hedging system, to reduce market and operational risks.

Grégory joined a month ago the Saipol trading team on the biodiesel desk, to work on paper and physical markets.

Mr. Fastow was the Chief Financial Officer of Enron Corp. from 1998 – 2001. In 2004, he pled guilty to two counts of securities fraud, and was sentenced to six years in federal prison. He completed his sentence in 2011, and now lives with his family in Houston, Texas. Mr. Fastow currently consults with Directors, attorneys, and hedge funds on how best to identify potentially critical finance, accounting, compensation, and cultural issues. He is also a Principal of KeenCorp, an artificial intelligence software company. Mr. Fastow received a BA in Economics and Chinese from Tufts University and an MBA in Finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at  Northwestern University. Prior to joining Enron, he was a Senior Director in the Asset Securitization Group at Continental Bank N.A.

Since his release from prison, Mr. Fastow has been a guest lecturer at universities and corporations, and at conferences for management, corporate directors, attorneys, accountants, and certified fraud examiners. Mr. Fastow was recently a keynote speaker at the United Nations’ Principles of Responsible Management Conference, the FBI’s Advanced Financial Crimes Seminar, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Annual Conference, the American Accounting Association Annual Conference, and the Financial Times Outstanding Directors Conference.

Benjamin is ION’s Director in charge of commodity Risk Analytics solutions, responsible for delivering innovative analytics solutions for all ION CMS (Commodity Management Solutions). Prior to ION, Benjamin held several positions at Allegro Development in the Sales department expanding risk product reach to new geographies and industries providing solutions to global commodity trading companies.

Benjamin graduated from the INSA at Toulouse with an MS degree in Electrical Engineering.

Before co-founding and joining Komgo as Head of Sales in 2018, Audren was a commodity structured trade finance banker for 12 years. He worked for BNP Paribas and Société Générale  as middle officer and relationship manager in Paris, Johannesburg and Geneva. At Société Générale he built a profitable book of EMEA clients from scratch. He holds a Master in Finance from KEDGE Business School and an MBA from EPFL.

James is Global Talent Acquisition Manager at Louis Dreyfus Company based in Geneva. He joined the group in January 2020 after 10 years at Chevron in London having worked with all business streams including E&P, Shipping and Energy Trading. Having 20 years’ experience in Human Resources specialising in Recruitment / Talent Acquisition, he remains focused on continuous learning and a passion for D&I, applied people data analytics and psychometric and competency assessments models.

Rich is a Board Member at Mandara Energy, a privately owned commodities proprietary trading firm, and Head of EMEA at Beacon Platform.  He is also a Trustee at Ambition Institute, a charity that helps educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better.  He previously spent nearly 19 years at Deutsche Bank in various roles including Global Head of Commodities Trading.  Rich lives in rural Wiltshire is married with two daughters and has an MA in Mathematics and Management Studies from the University of Cambridge.

Daniel Sutherland heads-up GSL, the agricultural trading division of McGill St Laurent, a diversified commodities firm headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Daniel is a seventh-generation farmer and prior to joining GSL, worked at Citi Private Bank in London. He has studied at McGill University, the Royal Agricultural University and the University of Geneva, where he is currently completing the MSc in Commodity Trading.

Alex is the Windward Director of Business Development for the Energy & Trade sector in the Americas. He brings 16 years of experience in the maritime industry and specializes in risk management, compliance, and market intelligence.
Prior to joining Windward, Alex has previously held senior positions at Lloyd’s Register Fairplay, IHS Markit, Genscape, and Lloyd’s List Intelligence.
 

Richard Payne is a partner based in capSpire’s Geneva office and is responsible for the business consulting practice.  His commodities experience spans 25 years split equally between consulting and industry.  He has held senior executive roles at Rosneft Trading, Cargill and Rio Tinto.  At Accenture, he was the Managing Director responsible for the commodities trading practice.  He has extensive global experience in the origination & marketing of physical and derivatives products across a range of hard & soft commodities and as well as improving commercial, middle & back-office operations.  A champion of applying digital technology to trading processes he is a recognised speaker and author on the subject.  

Based in London, Samuel Lighting is responsible for the identification, analysis, and mitigation of internal and external risks related to the business.

Sam joined SOCAR Trading in February 2018, bringing with him over 20 years of experience in banking and commodity trading organisations.  Sam heads up SOCAR Trading Global Operations, Market Risk, Middle and Back Office teams.  He is accountable for the group performance and risk reporting and management.

Based in London, he also serves as the Managing Director of SOCAR Trading U.K.

Sam has a degree in mechanical engineering and is a qualified accountant.  Having lived in Europe, New Zealand and the U.S., he has a wealth of experience leading large teams in the Oil and Gas commodity sector with spells as Product Control Analyst at Citi and Head of Global Operations & Market Risk at BP IST.

Global Head of Trade Control and Operational Risk in Eni Trade & Biofuels S.p.A. and member of the Committee of Chief Risk Officers, Alessio Pecorella has been working within the Eni Group for over 16 years maturing his experience in a multitude of departments within the Finance & Risk area. During his career he has been involved in setting up and implementing integrated control and risk frameworks for the American and European trading entities where he headed middle office departments covering Physical and Financial Oil, Gas Power, Emission and LNG trading desks. Previous to his Eni experience Alessio worked for Deloitte as a financial auditor specializing in the Energy sector.  Alessio graduated in Economics in 2002 and achieved his Master degree in Governance, Control Systems and Auditing at Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.